Tips for Storing Christmas Decorations during the Off-Season
Christmas DecorationStoring your Christmas tree lights and decorations in a safe place will ensure that you can use your lights again next year. Fragile light bulbs need to be protected from the weight of Christmas lawn decorations. Christmas tree lights need to stay untangled in a plastic container with clips to keep their circular shape. Don’t keep your Christmas lawn decorations in the attic. The extreme temperature changes in the attic can destroy your Christmas lawn decorations. Keep your Christmas tree lights and other decorations in a closet inside your home.
Christmas Lights
You can buy special containers that hold lights, ornaments and other decorations. Use bubble wrap or tissue paper to protect front door decorations. Store your Christmas wreaths in large hat boxes and place in the back of your closet. You can also attach each wreath to a wire clothes hanger using twist ties and cover with plastic. Wooden decorations can be stored in a plastic container wrapped with bubble wrap. The best time to buy containers for your decorations is right after Christmas. This is the time that everything associated with Christmas will be on sale at discount prices. Decorations that are flat should be stored in shoe boxes wrapped in tissue paper.
Candles and Ornaments
Wrap Christmas candles in cellophane or wax paper and store inside a spare closet in your home. They should not be stored in the attic or garage since they will melt when exposed to warm temperatures. Unusually shaped Christmas ornaments should be wrapped in tissue paper, bubble wrap or other paper and secured in a box or plastic container. When you buy new Christmas decorations, always keep the original box. This will make storing much easier than trying to find a box to fit. Label your Christmas boxes and containers and keep them in one place. Holiday dishes should be stacked with one sheet of bubble wrap in between each dish.
Christmas Dishes
Stack your holiday dishes according to size, and secure with crumbled newspaper. Label the box and store in the top of a closet. Side table decorations should be stored in several layers of tissue paper. Place them on their sides inside a box. Use crumbled newspaper to fill in spaces. The Christmas dining table set should be secured with bubble wrap. Fold cloth napkins and stack next to table decorations. Keep the holiday silverware and table setting together in one or two boxes. Label the box accordingly, and store in a secure place. When removing your garland from doorways, fireplace mantels and other places, drape it around your arm to prevent it from being tangled.
Place in a box or plastic container. Pack other decorations in the same container such as ribbons and lights that go with your garland. Don’t lay items on top of the garland or the pine needles will get crushed. Organization and planning will make Christmas decorating an easy task. If you store your decorations appropriately, then you won’t have to worry about ruining your holiday decorations. Decorating the home for Christmas can be your family’s Christmas tradition.
Christmas Lights
You can buy special containers that hold lights, ornaments and other decorations. Use bubble wrap or tissue paper to protect front door decorations. Store your Christmas wreaths in large hat boxes and place in the back of your closet. You can also attach each wreath to a wire clothes hanger using twist ties and cover with plastic. Wooden decorations can be stored in a plastic container wrapped with bubble wrap. The best time to buy containers for your decorations is right after Christmas. This is the time that everything associated with Christmas will be on sale at discount prices. Decorations that are flat should be stored in shoe boxes wrapped in tissue paper.
Candles and Ornaments
Wrap Christmas candles in cellophane or wax paper and store inside a spare closet in your home. They should not be stored in the attic or garage since they will melt when exposed to warm temperatures. Unusually shaped Christmas ornaments should be wrapped in tissue paper, bubble wrap or other paper and secured in a box or plastic container. When you buy new Christmas decorations, always keep the original box. This will make storing much easier than trying to find a box to fit. Label your Christmas boxes and containers and keep them in one place. Holiday dishes should be stacked with one sheet of bubble wrap in between each dish.
Christmas Dishes
Stack your holiday dishes according to size, and secure with crumbled newspaper. Label the box and store in the top of a closet. Side table decorations should be stored in several layers of tissue paper. Place them on their sides inside a box. Use crumbled newspaper to fill in spaces. The Christmas dining table set should be secured with bubble wrap. Fold cloth napkins and stack next to table decorations. Keep the holiday silverware and table setting together in one or two boxes. Label the box accordingly, and store in a secure place. When removing your garland from doorways, fireplace mantels and other places, drape it around your arm to prevent it from being tangled.
Place in a box or plastic container. Pack other decorations in the same container such as ribbons and lights that go with your garland. Don’t lay items on top of the garland or the pine needles will get crushed. Organization and planning will make Christmas decorating an easy task. If you store your decorations appropriately, then you won’t have to worry about ruining your holiday decorations. Decorating the home for Christmas can be your family’s Christmas tradition.
